Improvement in pen-wipers



.l. H. KIDDER.

Pen-Wipers.

N0. 142,480. Patented Septmber2,1873.

JAMES H. RIDDER, OF LAWRENCE,-MASSACHUSE'ITS IMPROVEMENT IN PEhl-VJIPERS.1y

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,480, dated September 2, 1873; application filed April 1e, 1873.

To all whom it may concer/n:

Be it known that I, JAMEs H. KIDDER, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Pen-Wiper5 and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying plate of drawings.

This invention relates to an improved penwiper in which are combined two brushes, a water receptacle, and an ink -well, the construction and arrangement of which are fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my improved pen-wiper is illustrated, Figure l being a plan view; Fig. 2, a central vertical section in plane of line w Fig. l; and Fig. 3, a vertical section in plane of line y y, Fig. 2. A in the drawings represents a stand or frame, constructed, in the present instance, of a bottom box, B, surmounted for a portion of its top by a rack, c, of any ot' lthe ordinary constructions for thereception of pen-holders, dto., and adapted as an ink-well, G2; D and E, two brush-heads having bunches of bristles, a a. rlihese brush-heads D and E are arranged horizontally within the bottom box B, so that the outer ends of the bristles of each brush-head abut against each other, and for their location in the box B, as aforesaid, the brush-heads are secured to frames b. These frames b have end pieces c, between which the brush-heads are fastened, and plates cl for covering nearly the whole of one side of the bristles of each head, which covering-plates at the outer ends of the bristles are bent downward, forming, when the two brush-heads are located as described, a throat, f, leading to the bristles at the abutting ends, and thus insurin gthe proper insertion of the pen between the bristles. The brush-head frames are not fastened in the box B, but are held in position by their anges g' overlapping the upper edges of the box B, and the brush head D is within and under the vplane of the pen-rack C, resting also, by its end pieces o, upon the shelf E of the box B. Under the construction and arrangement ot' parts above described obviously the bristles are in the most eii'ective position for use as a wiper for pens, and the brush-heads are free to be removed from and inserted in the box or frame B at pleasure; and the box B, if desired, may be filled with water for moistenin g the bristles, thus rendering the bristles more adapted for the cleansing of pens; F, a casing at one side of the bottom box B and Gr, a brush-head. This brush-head Gr is attached to a frame, h, and that frame his located in the casing F in a manner similar to that described for the brush-heads D E, and in thc location of the brush-head G the outer end of its bristles are against the end of the box B, and between the two a pen-holder can be placed, and thus held when not in use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat* ent, is

The water-box B having the supportingshelf E', in combination with the plates d (l having the throat f, and the brush-heads D E, all constructed and arranged as herein shown, for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 10th day of April, 187,3.

JAMES H. KIDDER. Witnesses:

G. E. Hoon, C. W. SYLvEsTEn. 

